Improvement in cultivators



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

FRANCIS M. CROP P, OF PLATTE COUNTY, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTlVAl'ORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,073, dated September 17, 1878; application filed February 16, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. OROPP, of Arnoldsville P. 0., (residence in Platte county,) in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Cultivator, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved cultivator. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on line :20 m in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to the class of cultivators known as wheel-cultivators, and it consists in a coupling, of new and peculiar construction, for connecting the cultivator-plow beams with the axles.

Referring to the drawing, A A are supporting-wheels, whose axles b are received by clips at the bottom of the forked standards B. There are two of these standards at each side of the cultivator, one near the wheel and the other at the inner end of the axle. The two forked standards at each side of the cultivator are connected together by bars 0. The two axles are placed in the same axial line, but are separated by a distanceabout equal to their length. The frames, composed of the forked standards B and the bars 0, are secured to a central frame, 0, which is composed of .the bent tongue-pieces D and the bars d, by

the long bolts 0, which bind the several parts of the frame together. A transverse bar, E,

- is secured to the bent tongue-pieces D, and

extends nearly to the wheels. From each end of this bar a rod, f, hangs, for supporting the a Whittle-tree. The lower end of the rod f is con nected with a rod, g, that is attachedfto the lower end of the outer forked standard, B.

Upon each axle, between the standards B, asleeve, h, is placed, which is provided with a longitudinal ribor flange, t, which is perforated to receive the bolts by which the forked arm k is secured to the sleeve. branches of the forked arm kare drilled to receive the vertical bolt 1, which also passes ward is almost wholly applied to the axles, so

that the frame of the cultivator is not strained when the implement is in use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat- Y I ent The coupling consisting of the sleeve h,

having the perforated rib 2', the forked arm U-shaped yoke m, and bolt 1, combined and arranged substantially as specified FRANCIS MARION OROPP. Witnesses:

JAMES L. JOHNSON, WARREN S. Moonn.

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